Arnold Seligmann
Date of birth: 1870
Date of death: 1932
Category: art dealer
Identity:
Jacques Seligmann & Co. was founded in Paris in 1880 by Jacques Seligmann (1858–1923), a German émigré who became a French citizen. His brothers Simon and Arnold, joined the gallery around 1900. They opened a New York branch in 1904. In 1912, after a family dispute, Arnold took over the French branch as Arnold Seligmann & Co., and established branches in the US in 1921 and Germany in 1932.
Life:
Seligmann sold Whistler's Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac y398 to the American gambler and collector, Richard Canfield.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .
'Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co.', Dunbarton Oaks research library, website.
